A17384:3209
A commentary
A commentary: or, sermons upon the second chapter of the first epistle of Saint Peter wherein method, sense, doctrine, and use, is, with great variety of matter, profitably handled; and sundry heads of divinity largely discussed. By Nicholas Byfield, late preacher of God's Word at Isle-worth in Middlesex.A commentary: or, sermons vpon the second chapter of the first epistle of Saint Peter vvherein method, sense, doctrine, and vse, is, with great variety of matter, profitably handled; and sundry heads of diuinity largely discussed. By Nicholas Byfield, late preacher of God's Word at Isle-worth in Middlesex.
London: printed by Humphrey Lownes for George Latham, 1623London: printed by Humfrey Lownes for George Latham, 1623
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That an evil Conscience may be made good, two things must be looked into: First, that we get a right medicine to heal it:1 Secondly, that we take a right course in application of the medicine. First, the medicine for the curing of an ill Conscience, is only the blood of Christ, the disease of Conscience is of so high a nature, as all the medicines in the world are insufficient, nothing but sprinkling it with blood, will serve the turn, and it must be no other blood, then the blood of the immaculate Lamb of God, as the Apostle shows, Heb. 9.14. The reason of this is, because Conscience will never be quiet, till it see a way how GODs anger may be pacified, and sin abolished, which cannot be done any way, but by the blood of Christ, which was poured out, as a sacrifice for sin.
That an euill Conscience may bee made good, two things must bee looked into: First, that wee get a right medicine to heale it:1 Secondly, that we take a right course in application of the medicine. First, the medicine for the curing of an ill Conscience, is onely the blood of Christ, the disease of Conscience is of so high a nature, as all the medicines in the world are insufficient, nothing but sprinkling it with blood, will serue the turne, and it must bee no other blood, then the blood of the immaculate Lambe of God, as the Apostle shews, Heb. 9.14. The reason of this is, because Conscience will neuer bee quiet, till it see a way how GODs anger may bee pacified, and sinne abolished, which cannot be done any way, but by the blood of Christ, which was powred out, as a sacrifice for sinne.
- 1What must be done to make an ill Conscience good.